Not Far East 12 - The End? Multi-cache
Not Far East 12 - The End?
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All caches are hidden EAST of the path a short distance
Stage one is just coordinates. Stage two is a pill bottle inside of a Calcium Tablet bottle inside of a black plastic bag. No need to approach the railroad tracks or go on private property for any stage of any cache.
This is a series of caches along the Skokie Valley Bike Path. They are designed to be done while biking (or blading) the trail. Save yourself some extra riding by starting at either #1 or #12 in the series. You can pick up all of the stage-one's in one direction, then get all of the stage-two's in the other direction. Do be warned that while all the caches are very close to the trail, you will be searching in dense brush with thorns! Bike shorts are probably a bad idea.
The End?
Of course not! If you started on the north end, you can now turn around and start finding all of the finals! If you started here, then you still have a ways to go.
You can also head east along Lake-Cook road (there is a nice sidewalk on the north side of the street) and check out the Chicago Botanic Gardens. They provide a bike path through the gardens connecting with the paths in the Skokie Lagoons to the south.
When I bike north from home (on the northwest side of Chicago), I like to head up the North Branch Trail, through the Skokie Lagoons, through the Botanic Gardens, then head on over to the Skokie Valley Bike Path which you are on.
From the north end of this trail, I like heading up the Robert McClory Bike Path and on up into Kenosha. If you follow the same route and get too tired to bike back home, you can always load your bike onto the Metra during off-peak hours:
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